Share your back to school photos

Aug. 29, 2012

Updated Aug. 21, 2013 1:17 p.m.

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FILE PHOTO: THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

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Sarah, a 14-year-old Orange County School of Arts student who was accepted in the inaugural class conservatory of Culinary Arts. (She is a bit of a jokester too and thought it appropriate to wear cookie monster since her favorite thing to bake is cookies.) PHOTO SUBMITTED BY KIMBERLY EKENSTAM

Riley Reynolds, 4, on his first day at Beswick Elementary in Tustin. PHOTO SUBMITTED BY HEATHER BATCHELDER

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Nicolas Boogren is starting 3rd grade at Running Springs Elementary in Anaheim Hills. Here he is on the first day of school. He was diagnosed as moderate to severely autistic at 18 months, and after years of intervention and therapy he mainstreamed into public school PHOTO SUBMITTED BY KENNETH BOOGREN

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7th graders Christopher Flynn of North Tustin, Jacob Cordova of Tustin, and Chris Lee of Cowan Heights on the first day of school. PHOTO SUBMITTED BY DEBBY FLYNN

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Sister Lupe Romero and her 7th grade students at St. Jeanne de Lestonnac School in Tustin on the first day of school. PHOTO SUBMITTED BY DEBBY FLYNN

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5-year-old Cooper Calderon on his first day of kindergarten at St. John's Lutheran School in Orange. He was a little nervous – but super excited to start school as a big kid! PHOTO SUBMITTED BY CJ CALDERON

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Best friends Shannon Smeathers and Kathleen Villanueva on their first day of high school at Foothill High School in Tustin. PHOTO SUBMITTED BY ANDREA HOVSEPIAN

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4th grader Jordan Kidder and 5th grader Jacob Kidder on their first day of school at Huntington Christian School in Huntington Beach. PHOTO SUBMITTED BY ANDREA HOVSEPIAN

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Sisters Shannon and Mikayla Smeathers. Shannon is starting her freshman year this year at Foothill High School, and Mikayla is going into 7th grade this year at Columbus Tustin Middle School. Both schools are in Tustin. PHOTO SUBMITTED BY ANDREA HOVSEPIAN

Whether it's kindergarten, elementary school or high school, sending your children back to class is both fun and scary at the same time. It's tough to watch them grow so fast before our very eyes, but of course we can't help but be proud of them at the same time.

You've undoubtedly captured photos of the first day of school moments, and we'd love to see those pictures and share them with fellow parents in Orange County.

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